Owners

of 20 acres on the southeast corner of Beauregard

Boulevard and Grady Avenue in Fayetteville will

now approach City Council with their plans to

build 54 homes in a "neotraditional"

neighborhood at the corner.

Council

will have first reading of the rezoning request

Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. at City Hall, with second

reading and a vote scheduled for Sept. 7, same

time and place.

Fayetteville's

Planning Commission voted 2-1 last week to

recommend changing the property's zoning to

accommodate plans for Apple Orchard subdivision.

Five

conditions the commissioner recommended include

requirements that the neighborhood have sidewalks

at street level a minimum of five feet wide, that

lots be at least 21,000 square feet and homes be

advertised for a minimum of $170,000.

Owners

Charles and Mary Alice Odom also are asking the

city to waive a required buffer between Apple

Orchard and the Nancy Lane neighborhood next

door. Lots and homes will be the same size as the

Nancy Lane homes, though the buffer is required

because the zoning is different.

The

Planning Commission denied the variance request

after planning director Jahnee Prince informed

them that city ordinances don't allow the group

to waive buffers in such cases.

The

Odoms propose 54 single family homes, a minimum

size of 2,100 square feet, starting from

$170,000.

Lots

would average 11,700 square feet, about a fourth

of an acre. A park is planned at the center of

the site.

Sandwiched

between commercial property to the east along Ga.

Highway 85 and neighborhoods with larger lots to

the west across Beauregard, the property is the

ideal place for a "step down"

neighborhood, a transition from the commercial to

the less dense residential areas, according to

Dan Odom, son of the applicants.

"We

want to create a Main Street look," he told

the Planning Commission during a recent work

session.